Katie and Jonny’s overland adventure

For anyone who followed our blog avidly, excited to hear about a trip overland to India and back, I thought I should draw to your attention that a few of our friends are doing a similar thing. Katie and Jonny are headed to India, diverging from the same route as ours by passing from Russia into Kazakhstan, then into China, Tibet, Nepal, India. They intend to volunteer in India at Navdanya, an organic farm and seed bank.

Their trip is centred on the theme of food:

“We are all in some way connected to food and it is this relationship that is, for most of us at least, the most direct and most common connection that we have with ‘the environment’. So it was with food that we felt that we would be able to explore not only the macro but also the micro, food as a topic will hopefully allow us to explore not only the political systems and structures that define and propergate the global status quo that is inequatable access to one of our most basic needs but also the local cultural relationships to food that are enacted on the personal, community and country level. We hope to explore how these relationships are shaping and can inform a more sane connection to not only what we eat but also to ‘the environment’ as a whole.”

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Dear Katie and Jonny, Many thanks for the lovely soaps and candle from the Himalayas. It was so kind of you for thinking of us. It sounds really lovely where you are staying. We miss you so much at this time of year.Going over to Jan`s Christmas Day.Will be lovely watching the children opening their presents round the tree. Keep well. Look after yourselves. Love you so much. Have a happy time. Many hugs and kisses. Marje and John. oooo xxxx